Xbox One vs. PS4

So much crap in this. I can't even bother with the first, because you're assessing two different use cases to defend battery life. You have to have a controlled environment for comparison. If your PS4 friends play 6-8 hours straight, while your Xbox friends are mostly on Netflix, it's not a 1:1 comparison. You'd need similar habits, and if you used that, you wouldn't get 4-5 weeks of battery life on a One controller.

As for saying that an opinion is rooted in bias, that's dumb. An opinion can be completely fact-based, even if it's an anecdotal sample. For example, I have a hard time recommending Seagate HDDs over Western Digital because, in my personal experiences, WD drives have held up better. Is that a Western Digital bias? No, it's an observation. In my opinion, based on real-world experiences, Western Digital drives are better because they last longer. That's not a bias, that's an analysis.

In my opinion, the PS4 has better gaming hardware, regardless of my BIAS towards the Xbox, due to game preferences (and other things). Actually, I guess that's not an opinion, that's a fact. Ignore that.

I already said that a scientific experiment comparing battery life would be needed to accurately compare the two. That is the ideal way to do it and, based on all previous scientific studies that have compared battery life among rechargeable battery packs and standalone batteries, we already know that rechargeable battery packs are less efficient.

Regardless, you're creating counterfactuals to try to undermine a plethora of qualitative evidence that shows there is a hugely significant gap in battery life between the Xbox One controllers and the PS4 controllers. If my PS4 friends play 6-8 hours straight their batteries will die. If my Xbox One friends play 6-8 hours straight theirs won't (not even close).

Ironically, after chiding me for using an anecdotal sample to prove a point, you then use an anecdotal sample to try to prove a point. Your 'personal experience' that Western Digital drives hold up better than Seagate drives is not fact-based. To know that, you'd have to have a controlled experiment. Your personal experiences--experiences that were not scientifically controlled experiments--biased your opinion of the two drives. Opinions are always rooted in bias. Facts are facts. Opinions are not.

Having said that, there is validity in qualitative data, especially widespread data. If tens of thousands of people on the Internet also indicate that WD is better than Seagate, there is very likely to be truth to that. In that vein, it's very clear from similar qualitative evidence that the Xbox One controller battery life destroys the PS4's. Most people online indicate the Xbox One controller batteries last weeks. Most PS4 reports peg the Dual Shock 4's battery life as hours to days. It's highly likely that scientific experiments would confirm this discrepancy. Therefore, to get back to the point, the original article was biased because it only mentioned the merits of the PS4 controller (i.e. rechargeable batteries) without mentioning the demerits (comparably worse battery life).

PS4 is a Chinese knockoff horse... Runs fast and will no be able to finish the race... X360 is a good example

LOL, WtF does that even mean? The thing is sold by a Japanese company and has an APU made by a company whose HQ is in California. I think it's assembled in China, but some Xbox Ones are as well, so I don't get your point.

The 5 million from 5 months ago was shipped, not sold. It's probably around 5 million sold by now, and 7 million shipped or something. Sony's numbers are actual sales.

And I'm saying that we don't know what it is. All we have now are rough estimates, but declaring that it's 10 million vs. 5 million just seems silly IMHO. It very well may be, but it just seems dumb to declare it when no one except Microsoft knows how many have actually been sold.

And I'm saying that we don't know what it is. All we have now are rough estimates, but declaring that it's 10 million vs. 5 million just seems silly IMHO. It very well may be, but it just seems dumb to declare it when no one except Microsoft knows how many have actually been sold.

I honestly don't know how this site tracks this stuff or if it's reliable, but they have numbers to support it: Platform Totals - VGChartz

And I'm saying that we don't know what it is. All we have now are rough estimates, but declaring that it's 10 million vs. 5 million just seems silly IMHO. It very well may be, but it just seems dumb to declare it when no one except Microsoft knows how many have actually been sold.

Yes, OK you've got a point. In that case, it's 5 million Xbox shipped vs 10 million PS4 sold. Which is actually even worse than what I originally stated.

Got my Xbox One coming on Tuesday with the Destiny bundle and I can wait. Ps4 sold on ebay a few days ago so im glad I got rid of that poorly made loud console. I have no doubt that in a few years quite alot of the ps4 will fail due to overheating and fan issues.

Got my Xbox One coming on Tuesday with the Destiny bundle and I can wait. Ps4 sold on ebay a few days ago so im glad I got rid of that poorly made loud console. I have no doubt that in a few years quite alot of the ps4 will fail due to overheating and fan issues.

I just pcked one up at the Microsoft Store. Microsoft is running a crazy deal at their stores. You get a free disk based game and a $50 gift card with the purchase of an Xbox One bundle. I got the Forza bundle, used the gift card to pre-order Destiny and grabbed a game for my kids.

Just go to the Microsoft Store website and the deal is shown there (I can't post a link until I have more posts under my belt, sorry)

Got my Xbox One coming on Tuesday with the Destiny bundle and I can wait. Ps4 sold on ebay a few days ago so im glad I got rid of that poorly made loud console. I have no doubt that in a few years quite alot of the ps4 will fail due to overheating and fan issues.

That's what I hate about my ps4. I only use my ps4 for exclusives they have.

if you get both, then while you're bringing your ps4 in for those you'll be able to also repair the disc drive and kinect issues on the Xbox. Multitask! ��

Still not experienced this, nor have the 10 other people I know personally who purchased an XB1. To my knowledge, it is people running with the console on its side, and once it experiences an issue they try with it flat to find it is broken. (Even though it is on a label on the damned console saying to only run with it flat and not on its side)

Also, what Kinect issues? I know a few people have been confused by some games disabling Kinect (as per MS update) but you just reenable it by pressing the Xbox button and going to the home page. Its the trade off for having a game use the memory originally allocated for voice commands etc...

Still not experienced this, nor have the 10 other people I know personally who purchased an XB1. To my knowledge, it is people running with the console on its side, and once it experiences an issue they try with it flat to find it is broken. (Even though it is on a label on the damned console saying to only run with it flat and not on its side)

Also, what Kinect issues? I know a few people have been confused by some games disabling Kinect (as per MS update) but you just reenable it by pressing the Xbox button and going to the home page. Its the trade off for having a game use the memory originally allocated for voice commands etc...

They're both known issues you can easily Google. Not affecting all devices. So pretty much the same deal with ps4 known issues.